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19:00 | Glenn Miller Orchestra (USA) |
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 World-wide famous Glen Miller Orchestra conducted by the outstanding musician Will Salden is to present a new program "The history of big bands" including the best hits from the repertory of world known big bands. The conductor Will Salden is an amazing musician, pianist, and official director of Glen Miller Orchestra in Europe. The orchestra, formed in 1983, consists of professional multi-instrumentalists. Two alto-saxophone, two tenor-saxophone and clarinet create that brilliant trademark sounding of imperishable Glen Miller's music. Will Salden is an outstanding musician who in his early years fell in love in Miller's magical music and has carried this love with him for the rest of his life performing incredible compositions of the great master for vast audience to keep them primordial for further generations. The Moonlight Serenade Singers and the Broadway Swing Dancers will join the group for an unforgettable performance of tunes that are just as catchy now as they were back in the day. It's time to get swinging!
MMDM Svetlanov Hall  |
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Moscow sacred music ensemble Blagovest and Honored Artist of Russia, Professor Alexei Parshin (organ) perform Requiem by Mozart, the most famous works by Salzburg genius. Veiled with bleak legends and permeated with the mournful sorrow, Requiem, anyway, ease the souls of the public and fills them with the shining light, just as all of Mozart works. Music, written upon a canonical text of a funeral service, vividly depicts human soul's experience in the face of the God: holy trembling and repentance and a lucid hope for God' merciful love. Moscow sacred music ensemble Blagovest was established in 1987, with the initial core of the group formed from an existing church choir. Its founder and artistic director is Galina Koltsova, an Honored Artist of Russia and Academician of the International Academy of Creative Endeavors. In 1992, the Blagovest became a state ensemble under the Committee for Culture of the Moscow Government. The main artistic goal of the ensemble is revival of the Russian church traditions in the sacred music, as well as the discovery of new and forgotten old names of the Russian sacred music composers including the expatriate composers whose heritage is a major contribution to the national musical and spiritual culture. Blagovest has given concerts in Poland, Austria, Germany, Finland, Spain, Greece, South Korea, and the Czech Republic. Being in Austria by the invitation of the Archbishop of Salzburg, the ensemble took part in a festive Mass in the Salzburg Cathedral, performing for the first time the Russian Orthodox music during a Catholic service. The Blagovest Ensemble has recorded several compact disks issued by the companies Multisonic (Czechoslovakia), Vist (Russia/America), Lad (Russia/England), Russian Season (Russia/France), and Daniel C. C. Cho (South Korea).
Roman Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
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Featuring the anthemic songwriting of Ryan Tedder, OneRepublic rose to prominence in 2007, when "Apologize" began its reign as the most popular digital download in American history. Although the song proved to be a quick success, OneRepublic had spent five years touring the musical minor leagues before its release, with Tedder splitting his time between the band's work and production gigs for other artists. Tedder and Zach Filkins formed the band in 2002 and relocated to Los Angeles shortly thereafter, adding keyboardist Drew Brown, bassist/cellist Brent Kutzle, and drummer Eddie Fisher to the lineup in the process. Nevertheless, OneRepublic's popularity continued to soar on MySpace, and Tedder helped raise the group's profile by penning songs for artists like Blake Lewis and Hilary Duff. Hip-hop producer Timbaland took notice of the group's audience and signed OneRepublic to his own Mosley Music Group, a joint venture with Interscope Records. Timbaland also remixed one of the group's most promising tracks, "Apologize," and included it on his own album, 2007's Timbaland Presents Shock Value. The song quickly became a platinum-selling single in many countries, breaking airplay records in the U.K. and selling an unprecedented 4.3 million digital downloads in America alone. Later that year, OneRepublic stepped out on their own with Dreaming Out Loud, a debut album filled with piano-fueled songwriting and pop/rock melodies. The album quickly went gold, and "Apologize" continued to top the singles charts in multiple countries. OneRepublic's second album Waking Up was completed in 2009. In 2013, OneRepublic returned with its third studio album, Native, featuring the singles, "Feel Again" and "If I Lose Myself." Read more
Adrenaline Stadium |
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19:00 | Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra (USA) |
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The Philadelphia Virtuosi is one of America's premier chamber orchestras. Moving beyond traditional performance boundaries, the orchestra has been captivating world audiences for over twenty years. The orchestra's dynamic virtuosity and intimate style seek to entertain and challenge those who attend their concerts. With a palette of stylistically diverse and innovative programming combined with exceptional guest artists, presentations are provocative, poetic, and reflect the passions of music director Daniel Spalding. Transforming lives through the richness and beauty of classical music is central to our mission and spirit. The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1991 as a professional string orchestra with Daniel Spalding as music director. The next years marked tremendous expansion in the scope of the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra's activities including CD recording (the orchestra was the first American orchestra to be recorded by Naxos), major tours throughout USA and other countries, interesting world premieres. The Philadelphia Virtuosi is now in its 22nd year of continuous operation, having performed over 200 concerts for an audience of over 90,000 people. Funding for the PVCO over the years has come from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Cassett Foundation, Arcadia Foundation, Dofinger-McMahon Foundation, Huston Foundation, the Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation, Judson Foundation, Nakamichi Foundation, and most recently by PNC Arts Alive. There have also been a number of private donors who have generously supported the orchestra. The Philadelphia Virtuosi enters into the next phase of its history with confidence and the hope that it can continue to bring the joys of classical music to many more thousands of people. In Moscow the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Spalding (USA) and accompanied by Gabriela Imreh (piano, USA) will perform Gershwin, Piazzolla, Bernstein, Dvorak, Copland, J.S. Bach - L. Stokovsky, Lekeu, Giannini. The pianist Gabriela Imreh has established herself as a complex, compelling, original artist. Her performances span the globe: New York, London, Paris, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, five continents, over 200 US cities, 45 states. Over the years pianists often develop preferences for playing solo recitals, chamber music, or choose the larger fame of solos with symphony orchestras, yet Gabriela crosses these boundaries with ease. Her repertoire is vast, eclectic, adventurous. She has a hypnotic spell on her audiences and reviewers respond just as strongly to her playing, unveiling a coherent image of a mature and complete artist.
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall |
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20:00 | The Thing (Sweden-Norway) |
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 The Thing was established in the spring of February 2000 when the three musicians met do play several concerts and to record the first CD on Crazy Wisdom, a sub label of Swedish Universal. In 2001, they also recorded another CD on the same label as a quartet with Joe McPhee. Both CD's are out of print. The trio was a long wanted constellation where several musical styles meet in a very high energetic outlet. All members are influenced by different traditions of free music derived from Germany, England and America, and these influences are to be felt and not necessary heard. When the trio started out, the book contained mainly of tunes by Don Cherry, hence the group's name. Since Joe McPhee's participation, the group's reportuar has included other free jazz standards by David Murray, Frank Lowe and Norman Howard. Also, the groups enthusiasm towards rock music, is heard when they play "To Bring You My Love" by PJ Harvey on the second CD. Today the book has expanded to include tunes by The White Stripes, The Sonics and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This is just an example that explains how close musical styles are today, how similar the energy is and can be, and how much today's audience is melted together, devoted to creative music. The Thing is now signed on the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound. Mats Gustafsson is today Sweden's and one of Europe's biggest names on the free music scene. Through groups like Gush, AALY trio and Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet, he has established himself as a very powerful saxophonist, and has somewhat reinvented the way of playing the saxophone. Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love has become known as Norway's heaviest rhythm-section. Since they're long time collaboration started in 1992, they have been working in several groups, amongst them are School Days with Ken Vandermark, Scorch trio with Raoul Bjorkenheim, and the Swedish/Norwegian jazz-group Atomic. The Thing also performs with Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore and Cato Salsa Experience. "Tapping into rock's most primal forces with the fire and fury that's something to behold," - Mojo. "The Thing convert nouveau punk and vintage garage-rock into a roaring scream-up, but the sheer energy and love of the music keep gimmickery at bay," - Uncut. "The sheer power they generate from wood, metal, breath and muscle is stunning," - BBC. "Only once in a great while does a group of musicians come along with an inherent discipline that dares to question the realm between the known and the unknown. Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love of the Scandinavian Power Trio, "The Thing", provide a language so determined in its musical complexity, boundaries literally and figuratively disappear. This doesn't mean that these brilliant musicians do not respect what came before them, far from it. What it means is that their personal language is of such a progressive and impassioned approach, "style" cannot identify nor capture their ingenious and daring creative sensibilities. They have an unusual sense of artistic self awareness with a commitment that is a total expression of honesty and truth. It's a place greater than self, a place without prejudice, and a place of sacrifice where freedom in artistic values is worth fighting for. Each one of these extraordinary musicians has redefined their own given instrument with an exceptional ability to transform life into art with burning clarity. Their music is one of mystery, yet hides no secrets. There is the suggestion of a "search", yet there are no questions to answer. In truth, it is a creative universe of intense conviction where sacrifices are made, lives are given but where few understand what this means. Gustafsson, Haker-Flaten and Nilssen-Love have made the decision to give that sacrifice. In my book, there is no creative faith greater than that, " - Lloyd Peterson, Seattle, April, 2009. More info
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